I completely messed up this morning. I got up nice and early (or so I thought!) had a bath in my new favourite room – suite 1 and walked Joe. It looked like this from my 2nd floor window so I decided to take him through the wood.
It was a lovely warm day and I was walking in short sleeves. The wood looked absolutely beautiful. We went on a different route and typically, on a day when I had little time, we got lost and ended up walking for an hour. I got back to the chateau and Em called me and we chatted for 30mins. I thought it was 10:30 so I said that I had to go because I was due at my surprise location between 11 and 12 and it would take me an hour and a half to get there. Em told me it was 11:30 – ahhh! I am cut off from the world here with no TV and radio presenters I don’t understand, how was I meant to know the clocks had gone forward. I called my friend who was helping me with the surprise and naturally he was none to happy because he had to make some mad story up for those that weren’t in on it.
So I jumped in the car and raced up the autoroute. I arrived, as expected, an hour and a half later. I rang the doorbell with a bunch of flowers, bottle of wine, box of strawberries and a dozen British chicken and ducks eggs laid in France.
Claudie opened the door and was so surprised that she almost didn’t recognise me. It had worked and Eddy had kept them all in the dark brilliantly well.
I had a fantastic time at Claudie and Eddy’s. They all made me feel so welcome that I didn’t want to leave – so I didn’t! We had a really long lunch with multiple courses and I chatted with Sophie who is going to sit some really tough exams in Paris this week. She had to leave after lunch so the rest of us – Claudie, Eddy and Caitlin – went for a walk around Vichy to meet Amandine and her friend Cybil (not sure how you spell this name). The 2 of them were bonkers and ran around like lunatics. We took these pictures near a zip wire that they were riding.
Vichy is a beautiful city with lots of Bourgeois properties. The most impressive is the opera house where I took lots of photos.
Amandine and Caitlin took me to see there school which was fascinating (sorry, I have to tease Amandine a lot as she has come to expect it from me). When we got back to their house they fed me again! I showed Eddy my blog and Amandine showed me a “young person’s” blog which, of course, was much better than mine!I eventually escaped/kicked out of the house but not before Eddy sneaked some of his delicious chocolate cake into my bag just in case I was hungry on the way back – as if!
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